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“Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Julian and Maddalo. Line 544.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee26ec0f0e2945e8c3af44e4874ab289ee7464ba716ffe00a3e54513428bb0fd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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